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The Brussels Post, 1925-5-6, Page 7n The Automobile `OIL J I !, OL» FAMILYFAMILYi''1�11r Sk.l,. • now der to tray be.urt was the ofd family flivver, Whet fond recollections it eerie it review; The f rs i 9nd c ,the windslite,a^ilh, botv they could quiver— And how she did rattle, yes, even 'Hew well I remember the very first last tire, Thoret fi empty Pygas tank, seek, tho head lightsso m di • •Bow swe et was the sound when she' buck end then back -fire.- • And that time T drove her six mile an the ri'mi being 9ceupled, Treffie, of course, saris e]rcrOArhnients, lest one lonely' road, with sharp turns, there is al n element of (ittn ere. Does the everrege motorist keep to the right of the road as far AS pus- Bible or .crowd over to the middio? was the question eoriside' ed At A recent investigation, The answer to the question ie affected by tbe width of the road, curves, grades, slope of rood surface and 'condition of the surface adjacent to the iatLmtnt. Tins eon. elision is based on observations cif the habits of slavers of highways o d various ]elie5whittle ,»d location. Potnt:s were selected for observation, anti the width of the pavement was ntarked off with white paint into one - foot seetians, so Chet the position of passing vehicles could be observed. In most cases the cera were not G, o vehicles passing 1 g tier shoe es at the instant l of observation. The investigation, Itherefore, indicates the road position !preferred by the average driver. Few automobile drivers prefer a position closer to the edge of pavement than two and one-half feet and on meeting other ears the avenge driver will eae;ifico clearance rather than drive closer to the edge than he instinctive•• ly feels to be safe. Truck drivers who, as a class, are sometimes accused of being road hogs,. are found to be not guilty. Most of them were observed to drive a foot closer to the edge of the pavement than drivers of motor cors, and under all circumstances they adhered more closely to the side of the road. Eighteen feet is found to be the minimum width of roadway which will permit passenger vehicles and trucks driven in the preferential posi- tions to pass in safety and with a reasonable amount of clearance. • This will' allow a distance of 2.7 feet be- tween the outer wheel and the edge of the road for automobiles) and 1.8 feet for trucks,with 1.9 feet clear- ance between vehicles. Observations on curves showed that there' is a general tendency to shift to the inside of the curve, particu- larly by the ,traffic moving on the! outside. Improper banking of the road surface, poor shoulders and steep embankments on the outside of '. the curve all tend to make drivers crowd to the inside, White Hetes iu the centre of the road were found to be very effective in keeping traffic in its proper channel. In fancy I see her alone in the barn lot; -' The paint is all gore and so ar the gears. .The motor is 1ifeess—not even a hot Spot— But the flivver's firal glamor has held through the years, The old battered Meyer, The rust -covered Meyer, The rough -riding ilivver That served us $Q well. ---Tom S. Elrod. THE SPELL OF THE ROAD. Lurking along the miles of high. ways :which traverse this country is a mysterious power known to the automobilist as the "Spell of the Road." Few of the millions who have held a wheel for long journeys fail to escape its insidious influence,. Some tall it the result of concentra- tion, others describe a lulling of the senses as though the swift passage 'through the atmosphere was admin- istering a narcotic. This, they say, is especially true when the sunshine is strong and the skies are clear. The spell may be cast in Dundas or in the wide open spaces of the Prairies, and the driver. on Prince Edward Island may obey the mystic touch as well as he who travels the longest trails. Mach depends upon the motorist. Accidents so it is reported. have been traced to this numbing of alert- ness. Often . there is a tendency to edge the car toward the crown of the highway. And so gradually is this done that the driver seldom realizes that more than the allotted space is Clock as Beehive. A new clocix nus.set going in the tower of W itey (Nuneaton, England) Pari. t 'Civic' recently. The old clock had. an interesting history, and is supposed to have done duty since the day's of Charles 1I. Originally it had but a single hand. The second dial (of wood) was put an In commemoration of• the British victory -'at Trafalgar, and the second band was introduced about the same time. There is a record of Its having been repaired in 1740. When the old clock was removed recently workmen discov- ered at its rear a hive of dead bees and between forty and Atte pounds of honey A still more interosthrg lied was „that of a valuable !teat of fifteenth century glass, rt had been reduced to fragments in the old milieu of the window, and was covered by the wooden face of the clock„ Tradition has it that the Cromwelllan soldiers, marching from Coventry to Leicester, latoeked out the glass of Use Wiudow, and that the portion recently discover. ed was left lying about when 'new glass was introduced. Solution of last week's puzzle. ©®®L3®®[3 ®13QM0MOO T2011113 ..1:11;13111 8101313 E o ovQ�y• ©©u©®®l� it i t i g - ®®131g 211;1131211313'111. .©©®0®® 1111113101 BEMS °�1111202 El EMU' IS ISNIE M®©�°ooIIW Ma OMpE�R .811111:111 131 1211;1012 12 rt 0121111:20. -D®®®13®[7 • Sago grows wild in many parts of southern Europe. Wisps of Wisdom. The man who gives up goes down. You are rich only as you enrich the lives of others. Avoid the pleasure -that he/de the penalty of future pain. Half 'the value of anything to be done is doing it promptly. Don't be consent with taking things. as they come; go atter theta. Flowers bloom whether anyone looks at them or not. Have you less sense than a flower? • The royal road to success would have moretravellers if so many weren't, lost attempting to find short outs.' It is one of the beautiful compen- satlons of life that no man can sin- cerely try to help another without helping himself. Os Bank Notes. Greater privacy surrounds the mak- ing of notes for the Bank of England than almost any other undertaking connected with that great institution. The paper on which the notes.are printed has been made in .tits sante factory at Laverstoke, Hampshire, for over two hundred years. It is pre- pared entirely by stand from specially selected rags, and is washed and re- washed in spring water used for no other purpose. • The formula of the ink used In pi -lut- ing the notes is known to only half a dozen people. The chief ingredient is charcoal obtained by smoke -drying the wood of Rhenish vines. Each note costs the bank roughly two •cents to produce, and the average period of circulation le twoand a half months. About 60,000 of the motes are Printed daily, ,while' every year 20,000,090 old notes; are collected and destroyed.' CRO ,11CTOW PUZZLE 11111111111 111 1111111111 1111111i1111111 RIR •1111111111111.111111_1111N111 E11111111111111111 MINN 1i111111111111111N 2° II 111 VI 111111111 1111111 11111111111112i 1111111 i•, WIEN11111111111, 1111111111 11;411111A §111111111k 0.. 11�111111111111111 111111Es.; 11 Hilo limo ®I'i r:.t r50 Familia 1111411 ®■■u aril®®®■ mom ®1l1l ®lU .' ii/l1ll THE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE. SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS.WOBD PUZZLES Start out by flung hi the words of which you. feel reasonably sure. These will giye you a clue to other worda crossing them, and they in turn to still others. A letter belongs in each white apace, words starting at: the numbered squares and running either horizontallyor vertically or both,' HORIZONTAL ' 1--Oharge •- 6—Thoroughfares (abbr.) 8—Got up 12--A suffix meaning "pertaining to" 18 -Pound again 14—A vegetable 16—Ire 17--A limb • 18—A weapon 20—Conjunction. 23--Abbr. for title of a phystolao 24—Frequent 28—Mending 28 ---Kind of tree 80—Eagle 81—Parched - 33—A serpent •'• .35—Part of the foot 37—Possesses 39—City In Illinois. 40—Very large city In U. S. A. 41—Tilt 42—Brief poem 44—Thlrety 46—Instrument for writing 47 -Emmet 48—The rept); (abbr,) ( ) 50—Removing dust 51—Reverential fear 63—Toward 55-eConJunctlon 58—City in Nebraska • , 59—An incalculable period of time 61—Join 63—Small rug • 64—Shrill cries 66—Bag 66—Open spaces 67—Consumed 6$—Happening VERTICAL 1 -Musical Instrument 2 -Traveled fast 3—Mass of caat metal 4—Make a mistake 8—Watering place • 6 -Large city In Canada 7—Total 8-Advertieetnenta (abbr.) 9—Musical entertainment 10—Ocean 11—A planet t , 16 -Letters used to form compare, tive degree 19 -Paid (abbr.) 21—Proceeded. rapidly 22—Finish 25—Style 26—Feared 27—Getting larger 29—A common ,bird 33—Perform 34—The seed of an orange 86—Also 35 --Point of compass (abbr.) 37—Coal-scuttle 38—Firmament 43—City in Michigan 46—Frult of a tree - 47—Asea 48—Snake of the boa family . 49—Condltlon 61—Get up. 52—Upstanding 54—Exclamation 55—Upon '67—Blemish • 68 -Slily fellow 59—Perlod 60—Formerly 61—Employ 62--Reddleh brawn A Peck of Pepper. of the alkalods Is six, and of the oil r • Many people Imagine that white one• e er ha fro ueutl beeh found to pepper and black are two separate- du s q y ;Peeper and varieties of plant see - Bleck be adulterated by means of a clever toles, but this is not the case., Black !c , Pepper dustcomposed f faded pepper is the dried immature fruit of leaves or linseed meal; husks of mus- the plant Piper Nigtum, while white tard, ground rice, or even ground olive pepper is the same berry without its stones, is added to tlie genuine article. t i In. all eases,, however, adulteration' ieelack outer husk. BRITAIN'S WARRIOR QUEEN ed' 'The Storyof a IC B+' e forr a e Fight t~ e Many pndoume see every, day in life, set at the eatruneo to Westetin- star Bridge, the Statue of a woman In a war -chariot, We know that title Is Boadicea, a British queen of old; tie are vaguely aware that she did sonic - thing ' lite kh ng fat t e sutra of British Inde t ,. ondauee_ b her knowledge 0 l tat there the nowkdg f noses of us endo says an Engilsli writer. Her story le, es truth, obsoure, but It le ono that every Briton ought len 1q OW. Bu orBo i ddu d Sea, bettor known g was a native s Boadicea,the 1 stn 1 a ruler R of Britain. Buddug Is \Veldt for Vic- toria, and the Welsit delta her as their herolue and have plaeell bar among .their national worthies in the marllle gallery Af Cardiff City Hall, though there is no evidence that she v tray l] r a ever a ed so fa s Wales, When the Romans Came. Ie her day the greater part of JOng- inaed was n Jungle, the Andredaweald choked nonsmunications in Surrey and Sussex, vast forests including those of Epping and Halnault stretched northward from the Thames as far as the Waste, and the ouly facilities for travel were acrosa the military roads. of the' Suvaders. Until the -great call tame for national !ndepea- denee, Boadicea Barely Ieft her home among the warlike icenians, who occu- pied, what is now known as Norfolk and Suffolk. Caesar, the first of the Roman in. vaders of Britain, bad thought ft wiser to come to terms with the Icenlans rather than invade them in their sylvan fastnessee, and he made no at- tempt to exact tribute 'from them. r,27fey abode by their engagements and went well until the year 50, when e aggressive policy of the Propraetor •Ostorius provoked w national rising. The Ionians were aceletmed as the natural leaders by reason of their superior intelligence and martial spirit, but they had trusted too much to the good faith of the Romans, and were caught unprepared. The rising was :quelled, the teenicne were forced to pay tribute, and the Kansan general Prasulague was set up as king over them. To make peace more assured, Prasu- lagus married Boadicea, the heiress of their royal line, and,all trent well until the year 64, when he died, leaving his rear wealth. to,,the Roman Emperor g w e P 1n trust for his wife and daughters. Thus he hoped to save :his cingdem and family from molestation. But the Roman officials disputed his will and declared all Itis property forfeit to them as representatives of the Em- peror. Vigorous Womanhood.' When Queen Boadicea protested, she was seized and publicly flogged. Real- izing that they were faced with ex- termination, the Iceuians decided to die with arms in their hands-. They allied round' their queen and made alliance with the Trinobantes of Essex and Middiesex,-who had suffered from the tyranny of Roman veterans quar-' tered at Comulodununt (Colchester): The moment was atspieious, for Sue- onius Paulinus, the Roman Governor, was away in Anglesey, his garrisons were-.seanty and scattered. In those days the women of Britain differed little from their menfolk. They were brought up . to the same physieal fitness, Could drat)' a bow and ndure fatigue with equal vigor, were of behindhand in intelligence. The The pepperworts„ art a small group may easily be detected by a magnify found only in the hottest parts of,tise ing glass or a microscope. world, but they provide several useful o Plants—some with medicinal proper- Pianists Who Practice Hard. ties,, • The plant itself may be twelve All the great pianists practice hard. e feat ln height. Its berries are at first It is the only way if success is to be n been prepared her plan of campaign Rh rapidity, and carried it out til mphantly. Marching through the musts, she immediately took Colehest- er and razed ittoethe ground. Then he stormed the Temple of Claudius, hich had been set up as a monument of British- humiliation, After two days' siege she destroyed it 5o utterly that Its site cannot be traced to this day. The Capture of London. Snetonius, the Roman Governor, hurried hack from Anglesey to Lon- don, collecting legionaries on his way, but he soon realized that he was not strong enough to twee the British in the field, Hefled)rant his capital, and the way seemed open to Boadicea to drive the hated tyrants into the 'sea,. • She advanced on Loudon and captured it detest without ,resistance. After she had reduce(' it to ashes and Ieft scarcely one Stour standing upon au. other, she took Verulamium (St, M. f green,.then red;, when at this step Won, These great performers, of q they are' hand -Melted, and left in the course, Bove exceptional ` gifts to w sun to yield the black.peepercoru. 'start with. But no amount of gift ab- u It flourishes in the valleys and on solves the artist from the necessity 1 the banks of the rivers in Java, Mei- of immense and: long -continued worn acca, Borneo, and Sumatra,, whence it at- the key -board, Rubinstein was a s is sent to Britain under the names of tremendous worker. Paderewski con- w five varieties—Malabar, Penang, Sum- atra, Tray, end Telllcherry. The heavier the pepper the better quality it is. All varieties. are exceed- ingty similar in appearance, but the practiced merchant diffetentates theta. by their weight—the heaviest being Malabar, the lightest Tellleherry. The mixed pepper is ground by unit - stones or -in a coffee -rain, care being taken Iest the heat destroys some of the aromatic principles; if this occurs the peeper is known to the trade as, "burnt" The important constituents of pep - fosses to seven hours a day, and a good deal of it scales and five -finger exercises. Paciunann, Hofmann, Ros- enthaI—nlf Use eminent players -have spent many hour's daily at tate plane in pursuit of the euormous technical skill they were determined to acquire. There 1s no royal road to efficiency aS a pianist. But the necessary pears Hee need not be dill work, On the contrary, the' real musician loves rrorlting-at his, technical exercises and sometimes, even, prefers them to his pieces,. • - It must be admitted at any rate that par in it physiological 5e05e, are .kite the horse is more nearly -fool proof two alkaloids-piperin and pip+irldiise than the -automobile. --mad Its oil, The average percentage, When -I look on beautiful furs, I think of the fever, and the thirst, and the piste—SaraTeesdale. ban's) east condemned it t0 a aentire fate. Re quarter was gjveii, Ilut ties Brittelr triumph was short lived. Rotuau colonists lend extricated themselves from even tighter cornet's Swift meesen,gars spelt along the won d rful Ronan roasts through Use for este to the uttermost camps in this outpost of Empire, BY the end .151 01 an army 01 10,000 Romans had gather - together for a final struggle against the emancipation pa of Bt]ta1A, and Stte• tonus cranny 1 ooc 1 a r, n u ad cal Y k!o In p 1 acarrot V v JI r a e who o it Would be y qr 1a 1m• porsalbis for the British to employ their usually. successful tactics and outdauk the enemy. It would doubtless'have been wiser if Boadicea bed' waited and starved thein into fighting .on conditions more favorable to her :arms But she was. flushed'by success and encouraged by the sight of her vast hosts, which eine temporaries have computed at 240; 000 warriors. She decided to give battle, and we can imagine the en- thusiasm as she and her daughters drove in their •chariots through the Breesle !Ines, exhoettng her subjects to avenge the outrages of their tyrants and strike a final blow for the free dom and happiness of Britain. Death Before Dishonor, Meanwhile Suetonius harangued his men, bidding then have no fear of the multitudes arrayed against them multitudes whom he described con temptuously as a mere horde of wo- men. Events justified his confidence The.. battle soon degenerated into butchery, Sheep could not bare been slaughtered more rapidly then the British, le fewer than 80,000 of them Perished, while the Roman casualties were returned at 400. Lot there was the queen's chariot !fleeing away into the forest, Sueton- ins himself galloped in nursu•t deter - i nslned to capture tits Brltish warrior queen and parade leer at bis triumph. Nay, but 'be was too late. Boadicea had taken poison from a secret biding - place in her ring, and when her foe same upon- her he found that her proud spirit had fled, A Poet's Mistake. One of the finest sonnets in the English language is that which Keats wrote after reading Chapman's trans- lation of "Homer." The poet com- pares bis delight with that which "Stout Cortez" must have felt. when he gazed at the Pacifle from "a peak in Darien," and knew that in all prob- ability he was the first white man wlio had seen that ocean. Probably Keats has done more than anyone else to inapreass upon people's minds that Cortez, the conqueror of Mexico, was also the discoverer of the Pantile, yet he was wrong. He onght to have written Nunez, for it was Just over four hundred years ago that Vasco Nunez de Balboa first saw the Pacific Ocean. It was almost at the very point where the Panama Canal crosses the isthmus that Balboa also crossed it, or, at least, climbed to its highest point. Ile heard a wouderful story front the natives. They said: "If you climb those mountains you will get a sight of a mighty sea on the other side," and it was on September 26th, 1513, that Balboa actually beheld tike Pacific: SL. - Winds Are Strong. "now strong was tite wind?" is the question asked after a destructive storm, The answer to this question is like- 17 to be misleading, says Nature Ma- gazine, because .it isnearly always stated in terms of ,speed rather than force. and tete two things are not identical. The force of the wind cats be Indi- cated accurately by saying what pres- sure it exerts (in pounds per square. foot, for example) upon a surface at right angles to its path. Title »res sure varies approximatelyhs the square of the speed. Tints a wind of twenty miles an hour blows about four times as heed as one l of ten miles an hour, and a wind of thirty miles an hour blows about nine' times as hard as one of ten miles an bony, We can never be the better for our religion if our neighbor be the worse or it --Wan, Penn, MUTT AND JEFF—Sy Bud Fisher. 'et-. IN SoFr:';:'VC A dots i S wag CaR12ee1",0 ybcNr FOR THE NtWev1LLg -BUGLE AND b'ee GO'otsA SHooT he A Fleet -ie.', • PA(,e- S'icle y 'l I GHT Nowt-' TNI; teauoLUTitbN ) S A S elec.' e too ACTION AT ALLI 7 "T. LUNG TO Lae SAY sweet,Covc(z<-b W Mt The GNCM'1' i3Looa: -(Nis IeJACTWtTs' Pett s ON tete: J:'M,A SoLlelate NOT A COP s°, b- There Was Something Doing in the Mexican Twilight.. dN,rsTHAT You,Mu' t MSSTook Yov For eve clot. MY Scour: v�1 iwr5et,'1e1t. Natural Resources Bulletin. The Natural Resources Intelllgenoe. Sorel99 01 the Dept,t , 01 th D retorter et Ottawa St1.ya: ' Ona• of Canada's natural reSQlttees and one that is beenming lttoreasing. ly Important le her ;attractions for tou•risls and travellers. In stale traffic Cattada is now canting Into her own, Prone all parts of the counbry eeporte Ora received of fn. creasing es:etbers of Teeters. iota ala 1 ttYTsPts that t have heretofore not been active 1n looking after the inter- este nter• o e o St f u1sltOt•a are comminutes t l e Cl1• t t t}, q recognize he advantage ga of providing aceetnm do oda n and a tlee uo. YD l It would e c ell 1 di P h eA e n difficult •.. 1 c Y deal tot at g Y tourist with an eye for the beautiful or wonderful in seeuery to visit Cau• aria and not find many spots within e very edort distance whore he could find rest and recreation or otherwise satisfy his desire for change. h sea c• d A thetin aud Canada o YIters opportunities thataro unexcelled by any other country, and' the vast lengths of good highways that have been constructed during the Past few years have opened up areas hitherto inaccessible by automobile, During the coming season Canada will no doubt be visited by vastly greater num- bers of tourists. The Natural Re - Sources Intelligence Service is already is receipt of meaty requests for maps and other information concerning motor tours and . canoe routes from all portions of the United Stakes, in- dicating the growing interest in this countr Canadiy.ans have a well established (reputation for courtesy to travellers. During the coming'season we will be called uponmany tunes for informa- tion about the particular district in whiolr we live and about Canada in general. Let us welcome our visitors and encourage them to Tatum. As Canadians, wo also should visit the beauty spots in our own country. Many of us spend our vacation across the line, when within a comparatively few iniles are places which the for- eign tourist visits and whirls we have never seen. Let us this year plan to spend our vacations in Canada; we will then more readily appreciate the reasons why so many Dieted States tourists are visiting this country. All -Steel House Erected in London The sight of a house being built is Grosvenor Gardens, close t0 Victoria Station, recalled vividly the war per- iod when the officers hotel, tuns so capably ey the T.M.C,A., oceupted most of the triangular plot of grass beneath the trees. But it was not an- other war which was the eauee of this activity. It was none other than London's first steel house, according to The London Morning Post. The newspaper understands that it is Lord Webs project, and the object is to show London what 4 steel house really is line. The building is known as the single bungalow pattern and will contain six or eight rooms, all on the ground floor. The process could hardly be de- scribed as building in the accepted sense, because the house is erected in -sections. There seem to be four steel sections in each end of the house, and etc in each side. The house is three seottons long by two mitis'; so the ssetions are built up in Iwo tiers jointed together. The roof also is made in sections. Half a doer•:t boards, nine or ten feet by live, are put together side'by side in the waste shop, making a section, The roof - composed of a series of these sections, is hooked on to the main beam runt sting the length. of the house. Over alt are land red tiles of a warm shade, ingeniously fluted so that the over- lapping shall not let in any rain. Among the recent visitors to the site was Sir John Baird. What struck the onlookers moot was the entire ab- sence of the litter usually, a.aociatel with building. There were no mortar plants, no brick dust flying about, no scaffolding, no cutting of stone for window -sills. One thing seems certain: With a reasonable number of men a town could be built in a week. One was ir- resistibly reminded of the flims show- ing Canadian settlers running up a pratrle elturch or town hall. Windows and Walls. Masonry walls are only as sate against exterior exposure as tate win dew openings In them. The Worker. "How many cows are ye' wllkin', Hi?" asked Henry Mudge, in passing by, "I ain's a milkin' any, Sen; but the Misses, she's nankin' ken." Please Start Something. "What time ie it, Maud?" boomed her father from the top of the stairs. "nod's watch isn't goiug." ''Ilow about Fed?" Walt and See, bleep—"Say, prof, how long could I live withdut.brains?" Prof, ---"That remains to be sen," e Wanted a Ghunge. Auto Salesman --•"What type of car do yon like?" - "None of 'eta. I just tame In here to enjoy being among a few teal ] don't hafts jump from." Arent Island, off tIis West Coast of Ireland, bas a population of over 7,000. The total produce of thq lana ahie - livestoelc owned by these people only affords fried for two Menthe'itt every year.